Getting in Contact with Us

Debian is a large organization and there are a lot of ways to contact it.
This page will summarize the often requested means of contacting; it is by
no means exhaustive. Please refer to the rest of the web pages for other
contact methods.

Please note that most of the e-mail addresses below
represent open mailing lists with public archives.
Read the disclaimer before sending any messages.

English language is the common language for communication with Debian
developers. We therefore ask that initial enquiries to developers be made
in English. If this is not possible, go through
the user mailing list for your
language.

General Information

Questions regarding the Debian Project in general can be sent to the
debian-project mailing list, at
debian-project@lists.debian.org.
Please don't send questions about using Linux to that list; read on
below for that.

Installing and Using Debian

If you are certain the documentation on the installation media and on our
web site doesn't have a solution to your problem, there's a very active user
mailing list where Debian users and developers can answer your questions,
the debian-user mailing list.
All questions regarding

Publicity / Press

Events / Conferences

Invitations for conferences and
exhibitions or other type of events should be sent to events department. Requests for
flyers, posters and participation in Europe should be sent to the
European events
list.

Reporting problems in Debian packages

If you would like to file a bug against a Debian package, we have a bug
tracking system where you can easily report your problem. Please read the
instructions for filing bug reports.

If you simply want to communicate with the maintainer of a Debian
package, then you can use the special mail aliases set up for each package.
Any mail sent to <package name>@packages.debian.org will be
forwarded to the maintainer responsible for that package.

If you would like to make the developers aware of a Debian security
problem in a discreet manner, send e-mail to
security@debian.org.

Debian Development

If you have questions that are more development related, there are
several development mailing lists
in Debian that you can use to contact our developers.

Harassment issues

Debian is a community of people who value respect and dialog. If you
are a victim of any behaviour that harms you or feel you have been harassed,
whether it is during a conference or sprint organised by the project, or through
general project interactions, please contact us at: antiharassment@debian.org.